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Army declares loyalty to Maduro as Venezuela braces for giant demo
Venezuela's defense minister on Monday declared the army's loyalty to President Nicolas Maduro, who ordered troops into the streets ahead of a major protest by opponents trying to oust him. Venezuela is bracing for what Maduro's opponents vow will be the "mother of all protests" Wednesday, after two weeks of clashes between police and demonstrators protesting against moves by the leftist leader and his allies to tighten their grip on power. The center-right opposition has called on the military -- a pillar of Maduro's power -- to turn on the president amid an economic and political crisis that has triggered severe food shortages, riots and looting.
Suspect in Washington state mall shootings found dead in cell
The gunman accused of killing five people during a shooting rampage last year inside a Washington state shopping mall has been found dead in his jail cell, a local official said on Monday. Arcan Cetin, who was being held on five counts of aggravated murder, was found hanging in his cell at the Snohomish County jail on Sunday night, according to Rosemary Kaholokula, a prosecutor with the Skagit County prosecutor’s office. Cetin, 20, a Turkish-born legal U.S. resident, confessed to police investigators that he had brought a .22-caliber rifle into a department store at the Cascade Mall in Burlington, Washington, on Sept. 23, 2016, and shot five people.
Bank of America settles racial discrimination case from 1993
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Bank of America settled a decades-old case that accused its predecessor company of systematically discriminating against black applicants for entry-level jobs in Charlotte, the U.S. Labor Department said Monday.
Police: Woman wearing pajama bottoms robs 6 Utah banks
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah woman has been arrested after she was identified as the pajama-wearing robber in at least six bank robberies in the Salt Lake City area, including five in less than two hours on Saturday morning, police said Monday.
8 clarifications Sean Spicer would like to make from his Easter children's book reading
Press Secretary Sean Spicer has pretty notorious foot-in-mouth syndrome. Recently, he's gotten some heat for saying Hitler never never used chemical weapons on his own people, and then immediately referred to concentration camps as "Holocaust centers." He is, at this point, a sentient facepalm. SEE ALSO: Read the White House Easter Bunny's resignation letter Well, Spicer's talking woes only continued today when he was tasked with reading books to some children during the White House's Easter Egg Roll and he would like to make the following clarifications: 1. Peter Rabbit does not necessarily “embody the spirit of Josef Stalin.” Image: Getty Images 2. In
See Spot Run, Spot is not “running from the Assad regime.” Image: Getty Images 3. They do not say goodnight to “the benevolent President Trump” in
Goodnight Moon. Image: Getty Images 4.
The Giving Tree does not represent “what’s wrong with socialism.” Image: Getty Images 5. The wolf is not “in the right” in
The Three Little Pigs. Image: SHAWN THEW/EPA/REX/Shutterstock 6. Goldilocks should not have “brought a gun with her.” Image: AP/REX/Shutterstock 7. He would like to apologize for being too scared to finish
There’s A Monster At The End Of This Book. Image: Getty Images 8. Brown Bear does not see “Trump making America great again for me” in
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? Image: Getty Images WATCH: The first teaser for 'The Last Jedi' is here and OMG
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